Publications

Publication details [#14509]

Santa Ana, Otto. 1999. 'Like an animal I was treated': anti-immigrant metaphor in US public discourse. Discourse & Society 10 (2) : 191–224.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | metaphor | metonymy | political language | racism

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This article documents the contemporary framing in American public discourse on immigrants by way of a data-driven metaphor analysis of newspaper articles taken to reflect Californian public opinion.